Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2024

[Mark]

139.700 (AM) - BLACKJACK-1 in DC area working PANTHER (assuming this is JADOC Ground Station) SPARKLE system testing

There's a frequency: 139.150 Joint Air Defense Operations Center (JADOC) Bolling AFB Wash DC-Sparkle System;
that's also shared with DC ANG 121st FS and NJ ANG but I've never heard any Sparkle system related activity on it.

I've been trying to find a good explanation of what the Sparkle system does. Anyone?

I understood Sparkle to be an aircraft warning system that uses bright laser strobe light type colors red and green from ground station
to warn off small low flying aircraft.. Lights up your cockpit without really blinding you.Gets your attention quickly.
I imagine they test it out at times on local DC practice intercepts.. Light up a Cessna CAP plane perhaps.

 

[RaleighGuy]

139.700 (AM) - BLACKJACK-1 in DC area working PANTHER (assuming this is JADOC Ground Station) SPARKLE system testing

There's a frequency: 139.150 Joint Air Defense Operations Center (JADOC) Bolling AFB Wash DC-Sparkle System;
that's also shared with DC ANG 121st FS and NJ ANG but I've never heard any Sparkle system related activity on it.

I've been trying to find a good explanation of what the Sparkle system does. Anyone?

Things you never want to see in D.C.

The F-16 suddenly appeared off the left wing of the GippsAero G-8 Airvan. It wagged its wings, and its engine, in afterburner, shook the sky like an aerial earthquake.

www.aopa.org

The Sparkle Guns that Keep Military Air Transports Safe

Commercial airlines aren't the only planes under attack from shoulder-fired rockets and missiles these days, a number of slow-moving vehicles in the US

gizmodo.com

As @Mark said

 

[RaleighGuy]

POTUS to Maryland tomorrow, M1 to and from PGCo

12:30 PM THE PRESIDENT departs the White House en route to Prince George’s County, Maryland
12:40 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Prince George’s County, Maryland
3:40 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Prince George’s County, Maryland en route to the White House
3:50 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives at the White House South Lawn

 

[Mark]

First time I ever heard DEVIL-11 do a TFR intercept.. Maybe NOBLE's were not up yet?
Usually A/C guys use COSMIK callsign on NORAD intercepts. Not sure how long ago this was.

 

[RichardKramer]

What is 280.600 assigned to?

I don't know dmi. I have it in my scan bank as an a/a freq; but put no notes with it.

 

[TerryPavlick]

First time I ever heard DEVIL-11 do a TFR intercept.. Maybe NOBLE's were not up yet?
Usually A/C guys use COSMIK callsign on NORAD intercepts. Not sure how long ago this was.

This is wrong - N28PA was intercepted by the Noble flight not the Devil flight - Devil flight was headed the opposite direction and was a flight of four.. At 1:24 into the recording the word "intercepting" is show in the video but the actual term was "searching". The Devil flight was notified of the traffic (N28PA) so they could avoid same. Basically they were searching for N28PA and that is why they stayed at 2500' to avoid the other aircraft that was at 2000'. The jet the pilot called out as flying close to him was a Noble F16 - the ACY F16 were already north of the intercept point by Noble since they were flying north to Atlantic City RTB as a four ship.

Devil did not intercept the aircraft they simply were having the traffic pointed out to them for conflict avoidance by ACY radar. Noble flight did the intercept from the CAP.

 

[Mark]

This is wrong - N28PA was intercepted by the Noble flight not the Devil flight - Devil flight was headed the opposite direction and was a flight of four.. At 1:24 into the recording the word "intercepting" is show in the video but the actual term was "searching". The Devil flight was notified of the traffic (N28PA) so they could avoid same. Basically they were searching for N28PA and that is why they stayed at 2500' to avoid the other aircraft that was at 2000'. The jet the pilot called out as flying close to him was a Noble F16 - the ACY F16 were already north of the intercept point by Noble since they were flying north to Atlantic City RTB as a four ship.

Devil did not intercept the aircraft they simply were having the traffic pointed out to them for conflict avoidance by ACY radar. Noble flight did the intercept from the CAP.

Yeah heard that flight of four in tape..Was wondering about that.. guess video creator was not monitoring Norad freqs as well.. Still like pilots reply as why is their fighter jet near me?

 

[jsoergel]

I don't know dmi. I have it in my scan bank as an a/a freq; but put no notes with it.

Only assignment I have for it is HSC-11, but they are deployed on the Truman right now.